you know, mitt romney, the challenger he should be highlighting the danger of this to the economy, the importance of getting from here to the spring, and once you get there, you have to do something. you really do have to commit to do two things that we don't like, which is raising taxes and cutting spending. >> i totally agree with that. i think we need to hear from the candidates that they are serious about getting the deficit down to sustainable levels over the next 10 years. they will not allow a short-term fiscal cliff to derail the economy that isn't another version of them saying that we are going to kick the can down the road. i would also likely to be that we refer to what it says in current law. rather than the default to business as usual. i would like them to stick to the current law. >> and what signal would you like to hear? >> we have really fallen into a horrible pattern of only making decisions with government shutdown, default and whatever would've happened if we would've would win over the debt limit, the super committee last year of having a process in place force c